| Equine Medical Center of Ocala, PL Stallion Services Department |
| 2010 News A good friend of mine has asked me to help her get the word out to eventing breeders about the availability of frozen semen for the Trakehner stallion Grafenstolz. I hope to get his information added to my website in the next week; in the meantime, if you are interested in breeding to this fantastic young stallion, give me a call or email me and I can give you the details. 2009 News National Well, like most of the country, 2009 wasn't a big year for us as far as sales go, but it was still an exciting year. The first real crop of foals turned five years old in 2009, and so there are finally more competition results to report. Aside from the Hunter Breeding results of Zymphony (the lovely bay filly by Mersley Mon Capatain), who is steadily ticking up points in her age classes each year (finishing 1st in Zone 2 in the Two-Year-Old Hunter Breeding as well as winning the PHR class at Dressage at Devon!), we now have more youngsters competing in eventing. Courtney Cooper's attractive gelding Star Dazzler is quite impressive as a five year old, finishing 2nd in the East Coast YEH Championships with the best score over fences for BOTH age groups, quite a feat! He's been steadily improving at Training Level as well this year, and we're quite excited to see how he progresses in 2010. Catherston Dazzler also has Dekorum competing for owner Jane Rusconi. This mare was produced via embryo transfer in 2002. She won two Preliminary classes in 2009 with Michael Pollard, and upgraded to Intermediate at her last competition of the year. She had a dressage score of 31.4 and had the fastest cross country clear of all Intermediate horses to finish 2nd! There is a fantastic video of Dekorum on YouTube from her first Intermediate run. Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km2AnYNO2RM Yet another Dazzler foal, Bedazzled, is winning for owner/breeder Dr. Jennifer Miller in the Beginner Novice classes. As a four-year-old, we think her dressage score of 27.9 is very impressive! Catherston Liberator has two horses competing in YEH classes for owner Jacqueline Mars: Landmark's Cinco de Mayo and Landmark's Miss Liberty. Welton Double Cracker has three horses competing in YEH classes. Jacqueline Mars has Landmark's Sunday Storm, John and Dianne Pingree have Bally's Cracker (out of the great mare Bally Mar), and the O'Connor Event Team have Double Take. Fleetwater Opposition has his first US foal competing in the YEH classes with Lucid Opposition, competing with owner/breeder Jennifer McFall. Of course, if you look at the year overall, Fleetwater Opposition had a stunning year as a sire, with the incredible success of OPPOSITION BUZZ at Rolex and at the European Championships (team pathfinder with a double clear on cross country, Team Gold Medal). One of our past stallions, Miner's Lamp, had continued success with the European Team and Individual Gold Medallist MINER'S FROLIC. Congrats to everyone who bred to him in the past two years! And finally, Jumbo's stellar mare HEADLEY BRITTANIA wowed everyone at Rolex this year. Sadly, we are out of semen for both Miner's Lamp and Jumbo. International 2009 was a very good year for CEVIN Z, whose first full crop of foals are reaching competition age. Cevin is now owned by The Billy Stud (William Funnell), as his original owner passed away in 2008. His first stallion son, Billy Mexico, tied for first in the 4-yr-old championships and should attend his AES inspection in the near future. An impressive video of him freejumping is on YouTube. Two other 4-yr-olds, Billy Manhattan and Co Star II tied for 2nd in the 4-yr-old championships. Billy Laden, a 6-yr-old son, finished 10th in the HOYS 6-yr-old championships (1m30). He also has a 7-yr-old son, Billy On Show, who is on the Equine Pathway for the 2012 Olympics. And finally, I've found another Cevin foal who is competing internationally for Ireland: Valetto JX, ridden by David Quigley. Valetto cannot be very old (most likely he's 7 years old), and is competing at 1m45, with an 18th place (4 faults) in the Welcome Stakes at this year's Horse of the Year Show. The colored stallion UTAH VAN ERPEKOM has returned to competition after some time off with good results at Britain's Horse of the Year Show, finishing 3rd in the 1m45 Vinopolis Speed Horse of the Year class and 2nd in the 1m50 Sky Sports Trophy class. ALDATO/N-ALDATO (confusing how breeder's are using both names for their foals!) had a 6-yr-old filly, Celta Vigo, finish 6th in a 6/7 Year Old Final in Ireland. This filly was 5th in the Irish rankings at the time. I somehow missed the fact that Celta Vigo was selected by the powers-that-be in Ireland to represent the country last year at the 2008 5-year-old Young Horse Jumping Championships at Zangersheide! Very impressive! Attention Past Breeders! We need your help. We've discovered that the USEF Leading Sires standings does not always automatically link the competing offspring with their sire, even when the sire is correctly listed on the registration paperwork. I'm now trying to track down the competition names for all offspring so I can verify that the USEF has them linked correctly to their sires so everything will show up correctly. This is turning into a lot of work, and so if you have a foal with a USEF number (lifetime or annual), please let me know the name and the USEF number so I can make sure the sire is correctly linked to the foal! Thanks in advance for your help with this! Semen Availability 2010 As many of you know, we no longer have semen available for some of the stallions, including Stanhopes Diddicoy, Jumbo, and Miner's Lamp. There is simply no more semen available for export to the United States. We are going to be importing the last remaining doses of Catherston Dazzler's semen this spring, so I've started a wait list (I won't be 100% certain of how many doses are coming until they are shipped). There is a bit more semen in England for Fleetwater Opposition, but sales are increasing due to the success of Opposition Buzz, so it's unclear how long there will be semen available. We have a surplus of semen for some of the younger stallions, simply because they have yet to make enough of a name for themselves, so there are deals to be found for semen from some of these outstanding horses! Videos on YouTube The stallion videos are now up on YouTube...just follow the stallion videos link on the list at left, and then follow the directions with the YouTube link. All of the stallions for whom I have a video are on YouTube. The videos are also available on DVD...just call me or send an email and I'll send you one. Leading Ladies Award at HITS Ocala We are thrilled to announce that we have signed on to sponsor another embryo transfer award in conjunction with the HITS Winter Circuit in Ocala. In 2008, the award was won by Patoile, ridden by David Beisel, after being the highest placing mare in the 2008 $100,000 Deluca Toyota Tundra Grand Prix (finished 3rd). She produced an embryo in the spring of 2009 (after competing at HITS again in the Grand Prix classes), via frozen semen by the great stallion For Pleasure. In 2009, the award was shared jointly by two mares. In 2010, the highest earning mare from all of the Grand Prix classes at HITS Ocala will receive the embryo transfer. For more information about this award, click here. ______________________________________________________________________ PLEASE do NOT use the names of the stallion's stud farm in the name of your US foal without permission. These stud farms have spent years developing a reputation and have their names licensed for exclusive use overseas. If you want to use the name "Catherston" or "Welton" in your foal's name, PLEASE ask permission from the stud farm in the UK before formalizing a name. Would you want someone using your farm name to advertise their horses without your permission? ______________________________________________________________________ If you have problems accessing this site or have other difficulties, please contact Christine at (352) 266-4669 or emcostallionservices@yahoo.com. |
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| In addition to the stallions that we represent, semen is also stored at our clinic for other stallions. Click here for a list and contact details. |
| Above: Zymphony. Currently 1st in Zone 2 standings in 2-yr-old Hunter Breeding. By Mersley Mon Capatain out of a TB mare. |
| Above and at right: Star Dazzler at the East Coast YEH Finals, where he finished 2nd overall in the Five-Year-Old division with the best jumping score of the day. By Catherston Dazzler out of an imported Irish Sport Horse mare. |